Hospital's new profit strategy: help others collect debts

As hospital companies struggle to make money providing medical care, they are turning to the profitable and growing business of collecting debt.

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Angelia Fowler was surprised to learn that the debt-collection agency she says is ruining her life is owned by the hospital company that saved it.

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